[OpenSIPS-Users] Opensips saying memory is all used. TOP shows plenty of free memory

[Răzvan Crainea]

Hello!

OpenSIPS is using its own memory manager. If the memoryy configured is 
not enough, you should increase it using the -M (for shared memory) amd 
-m (for private memory) parameters.

Best regards,

Răzvan Crainea
OpenSIPS Developer
www.opensips-solutions.com

On 09/13/2017 09:14 AM, mwb via Users wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running opensips 2.1.5 within a RedHat 7 VM:
>
> NOTICE:core:main: version: opensips 2.1.5 (x86_64/linux)
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
>
> The system is still in development so it only gets occasional SIP 
> requests, however, despite the lack of traffic the OpenSIPS has been 
> complaining that it has run out of memory. Even after a "killall 
> opensips" and starting the program again. Here are the messages it's 
> outputting:
> Sep 12 22:06:53 [22490] ERROR:core:new_avp: no more shm mem
> Sep 12 22:06:53 [22490] ERROR:core:add_avp: Failed to create new avp 
> structure
> Sep 12 22:06:53 [22490] ERROR:core:pv_set_avp: error - cannot add AVP
> Sep 12 22:06:53 [22490] ERROR:core:do_assign: setting PV failed
> Sep 12 22:06:53 [22490] ERROR:core:do_assign: error at 
> /usr/local//etc/opensips/opensips.cfg:119
> Sep 12 22:06:53 [22490] WARNING:core:fm_malloc: Not enough free 
> memory, will attempt defragmentation
>
> Concurrent with that, here is the memory section from "top:"
> KiB Mem :  3880064 total,  1994460 free,   597692 used,  1287912 
> buff/cache
> KiB Swap:  8388604 total,  8388604 free,        0 used.  2771860 avail Mem
>
> CPU usage is also at 0.
>
> It's harder to replicate but I do occasionally get "timer_ticker" 
> errors from OpenSIPS when there are no con-current calls up on the device:
> Sep 7 15:54:32 [11076] WARNING:core:timer_ticker: timer task 
> <blcore-expire> already scheduled for 63646530 ms (now 63727200 ms), 
> it may overlap..
> There are a few things to note: Opensips itself is spawned by another 
> process (a perl plackup server). Is it possible the process that 
> spawns it is limiting it's memory?
> As an alternative do people normally create a service file for 
> OpenSIPS on RHEL? I need to be able to restart OpenSIPS via a web 
> interface so I can't manually start and stop it all of the time. The 
> way I figured out was to have the webserver start it but potentially I 
> could have the web-server make calls to systemd
>
>
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